Betrothed

Jing Yi felt totally dizzy. It was so shocking that she almost turned into an idiot.

Between her fond of eating and her identity as 'half-taotie', was it related?

Then you could label all culinary lovers in this world as taotie too! Ha ha ha…

And more importantly, her-idiot-state right now, was it hereditary?

She unconsciously looked at Jiang Chen Lu. If she was an idiot, then this man in front of here was the bigger idiot than her many many mannnyyyyyy folds.

She really wanted to weep right now…

Jiang Chen Lu was speechless. Looking at his daughter's gaze full of sympathy and maybe a little bit of horror, he couldn't help but feel embarrassed. More or less he could guess what she was thinking.

He coughed twice to clear his throat. He was an adult after all. More than a thousand years old to boot. He knew that he must admit his mistake, but was it appropriate? To apologize to his daughter. Where should he put his dignity?

In the end, after considering whether it was appropriate or not, his decision was fixed at that he wouldn't apologize at all.

He was the girl's father so he had his own ways to 'teach' his daughter.

…right?

At present Jing Yi was brooding miserably. How should she respond to this matter? Just turned a blind eye and let it slip? Moreover, what's benefit she got by pursuing it? Just adding another headache, yes?

As her mother said, no matter what logic you said to a moron, he wouldn't understand. Just save your saliva for yourself was the best. At least it lessened your wrinkles…

In the end, she too, in order to live a stress-free lifestyle, she decided to act as if she never had this conversation.

Period.

Jing Yi immediately jumped up to next important question.

"Okay. I understand.", she said almost whimpering. " You just said… I was betrothed. With whom?"

She prepared to receive another impact. The one before was… superb. So maybe this one would much easier to swallow?

Jiang Chen Lu was relieved. Indeed, she was his daughter. So sensible. His tense facial muscles immediately loosened a little.

"He is the second young master of Ye Clan in our neighbor kingdom, Qing Sha.", he replied solemnly.

Ye Clan… Ye Clan…

Jing Yi's forehead furrowed together. She had heard it somewhere but again she forgot.

Her heart sank. Since she opened her eyes and discovered that the body she had occupied was severely injured especially on the head, she found out that she had forgotten many many things. Not only that, her ability to memorize appeared to decrease day by day.

She exhaled heavily. She tilted up and questioned cautiously, " What… kind of… a person is he?"

What kind of person?

Jiang Chen Lu was silent for a while, thinking.

Ye Clan.

Just thinking about them, he was disgusted.

Ye Xing Sect was a dark cultivation sect specialized in curses. They had invented many terrifying curses since hundreds of years ago.

The time of war between Qing Sha and Dongfang, Ye Xing Sect became the pillar of offense for Qing Sha at the frontline.

Despite their formidable forces, their conduct was immoral. They allowed marriage between siblings. Not only that, debauchery and sexual relationship between same gender...

Ye Xing Sect had lost their head and his family in war 4 years ago. Leaving behind only his two daughters born by his concubines.

Even though it was considered a huge blow, but in the end, it didn't destroy the whole sect.

Second young master of Ye Clan, Ye Mu Cheng, was actually an illegitimate child of the deceased headmaster. His birth mother was dead since he was little, therefore his father's main wife was the one who took care of him. For him, she was his mother.

Years later rumor said that he and his elder brother had a 'special' relationship. Thus, when he heard that his brother was killed in the war without an intact corpse, he was enraged and wanted to avenge him. It was a pity that deep grudge failed to avenge, instead he was severely injured.

He couldn't move his two legs anymore and half of his face was severely burned.

But still, Qing Sha was very hard to defeat. One time lose, next they blazed another war. A fiercer one.

Dongfang couldn't withstand it. Therefore, the emperor decided to negotiate.

Qing Sha wouldn't launch another attack, as long as Dongfang was willing to hand over four children. Jing Yi was one of them.

At that time, she was born for only one week. Jiang Chen Lu and Qiong Qi had prepared a plan.

He sacrificed Lin Feng Yu to save her.

It was actually a perfect plan. Should be. He made it as if there was another force who wanted to seize the baby. Another battle happened. But in fact, some elders of Ye Clan had already guessed his movement and prepared beforehand.

They put a curse on her.

Jiang Chen Lu failed to save her on time. Although he had successfully killed those elders, it was too late for his daughter. In the end, he used his life force to prevent the curse to flare up.

When Jiaang Chen Lu had finished narrating the story, Jing Yi felt a shiver creeping up her spine and she got goosebumps.

That Ye Mu Cheng was her fiancee…

The war was stopped, two kingdoms signed a peace agreement. But although she was saved, Ye Clan had long known that Jiang Chen Lu had deceived them.

They sent an envoy. They had captured one of his weaknesses and used it to threaten him. In addition to his injured state, he couldn't fight back.

"That was why you accepted their marriage proposal?", she asked.

Jiang Chen Lu nodded. He answered, "I almost lost my life because of this injury. And if I died, they will capture you and also your uncle."

"But why? Why must they go that far? Why won't they kill me directly? Why must marry that man?", Jing Yi started to get hysterical.

Did they want to torture me? Made me living a life worse than death?